Review Article

Adjuvant Chemoradiation Therapy in Gastric Cancer: Critically Reviewing the Past and Visualizing the Next Step Forward

Table 2

Ongoing trials in the adjuvant therapy setting for gastric cancer.

TrialPhase/patients sampleTumor
location
InterventionPrimary endpoint

ARTIST II
(NCT00407186)
III
1,000
Stomach/GEJA: Surgery→S-1 + RT/S-1 + CDDP + RT
B: S-1/S-1 + CDDP
DFS

CRITICS
(NCT00407186)
III
788
Stomach/GEJA: ECC/EOC→Surgery→CC + RT
B: ECC/EOC→Surgery→ECC/EOC
OS

TOPGEARII/III
752
Stomach/GEJA: FU/C + RT→Surgery→ECF/EOX
B: ECF/EOX→Surgery→ECF/EOX
OS

MAGIC-B
(NCT00450203)
II/III
1,100
Stomach/GEJA: ECX + BEV→Surgery→ECX + BEV
B: ECX + BEV→Surgery→ECX + BEV
OS

JCOG
(NCT00252161)
III
316
Stomach/GEJA: S-1 + CDDP→Surgery→S-1
B: Surgery→S-1
OS

RTOG-1010
(NCT01196390)
III
480
Middle-lower esophageal/GEJA: C-PAC + RT + H→Surgery→H
B: C-PAC + RT→Surgery
DFS

NCT01711242III
300
StomachA: Surgery→XELOX
B: Surgery→XELOX/RT/XELOX
DFS

TOXAG
(NCT01748773)
II
40
Stomach/GEJSurgery→XELOX + H + RTSafety/tolerability

RT: radiation therapy, 45 Gy.
S-1: tegafur/gimeracil/oteracil.
CDDP: cisplatin.
ECC: epirubicin/cisplatin/capecitabine.
EOC: epirubicin/oxaliplatin/capecitabine.
FU: 5-fluorouracil.
ECF: epirubicin/cisplatin/5-fluorouracil.
ECX: epirubicin/cisplatin/capecitabine.
BEV: bevacizumab.
C: carboplatin.
PAC: paclitaxel.
H: trastuzumab.
XELOX: oxaliplatin-capecitabine.